26.6. Isolating Workflows into Dedicated Libraries
While making a Workflow Console Application is great for experimenting with the WF API, a production-ready workflow will certainly need to be packaged up into a custom .NET *.dll assembly. By doing so, you can reuse your workflows at a binary level across multiple projects.
While you could begin using a C# Class Library project as a starting point, the easiest way to build a workflow library is to start with the Activity Library project, under the Workflow node of the New Project dialog. The benefits of this project type are that it will set the required WF assembly references automatically and give you a *.xaml file to create your initial workflow.
This workflow will model the process of querying ...
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